About Adavnced Wind Technologies

Geoff Thomas, visionary and fore-planner of Advanced Wind Technologies, has demonstrated his commitment to people and organisations wanting to implement sustainable new technologies. Further, he has consulted, provided information, designed, distributed and installed renewable energy systems for all of his tenders in an expert manner. His expertise allows him to directly service his installations and train others to do the same.

Geoff Thomas became involved in the Solar industry in the mid-eighties as an agent of Rainbow Power, then soon became an independent agent selling a wide range of Renewable and non-toxic products, in his Solar Shop in Bellingen for eight and a half years, visited by hundreds of thousands of people. Geoff continued to design, sell and install many solar and hydro systems, all of which continue to function perfectly, while nurturing an interest in wind technology. In 1994, he established contact with a number of manufacturers of large wind Generators, officially becoming the Australian agent for Lagerway Wind Turbines in 1998.

While working for Lagerway, Geoff tendered in co-operation with Henk Pasma, an experienced electrical contractor from Cairns, for the Thursday Island wind Generators (2 x 250kW machines), the King Island Wind Farm (3 x 250kW machines), and made representation to the Crookwell wind farm in NSW and an 80 kW machine at Denham. He also tendered for the Portland Wind Farm (27 x 750 kW machines), (Cape Bridgewater), which was Australia’s first proposed commercial wind farm, by forming a consortium with a factory group in Latrobe and Lagerway. Subsequently Geoff tendered for the Ravenshoe and Albany wind farms which were unsuccessful in part due to internal problems in Lagerway.

In 1997, Geoff discovered a Swedish company - Pitchwind – also making a ring generator turbine like the innovative large multi-pole ring generator only developed by Enercon and Lagerway. Pitchwind however had developed the technology on a much smaller scale (PW 30-15), and had used permanent magnets in their design. Over the years, Geoff has observed the evolution of Pitchwind technology, forming alliances with the company. He now holds exclusive Australasian distributorship for Pitchwind, and seeks to make this technology available in Australia and Australasia.

More recently, due to popular interest in wind farms, AWT has secured the agency of Nordic, a Swedish company manufacturing larger 1 megawatt machines. Due to the unusual and innovative design of these machines, they are significantly less expensive than comparative machines. If you are considering investing in a wind farm, please contact us for further information.

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